Adam’s Apples #17 Take a bite of snowboarding knowledge
Hey, my name is Adam Bowcutt and I am a snowboarder. Welcome to this week’s tasty round-up of snowboarding blog posts, articles and forum topics from around the world.
Do you want to be freed from the shackles of 9 to 5 office life? If you become a snowboard instructor the perfect method of lifestyle could unravel…
Teach & get high
Becoming a snowboard instructor can be a way to mix your passion for riding with a fun job that may or may not feel like work. Some instructors make a career out of it and spend time training to pass exams to get to the higher rungs of instructor certification. An example is CASI level 4 (Canadian Association of Snowboard Instructors) This is the highest level where you act as a trainer of other instructors perhaps within a snow school or directly for CASI evaluating potential instructors. Other snowboarders may just teach for one season because in their eyes the disadvantages may outweigh the benefits.
Check it out some advantages of being a snowboard instructor HERE courtesy of Snowboarding-essentials.com
Taste the opinion rainbow
The opinions of other snowboarders about the pros and cons of being an instructor are as vast and varied as a mixed fruit salad. Some are random, funny or occasionally misguided without having first hand experience. Instructors generally stick out like a sore thumb at ski resorts often forced to wear bright coloured snow school uniforms.
Join the pros & cons discussion HERE via shredunion.com
Cons to being a Pro
If you’ve ever thought about becoming an snowboard instructor then it could be a good idea to not only research your options regarding training, certification or best gap programs, but, to also discover other insights into the pros and 
cons. Try not to take it as gospel truth as the sources may not be too valid, however, some opinions may be warranted by real life instructors who have actually been there and done that…
Read a more concise thread on the pros & cons of being a snowboard instructor HERE via goneboarding.co.uk
A freestyle method
Experienced instructors gather tools to help them teach a better lesson or provide a quality training session for other instructors. Examples of these tools may be teaching methods (the structure of the lesson not the trick!) or a specific drill or tactic used as a teaching aid to help new students. A more material tool that may also be helpful and fun can be a mini bendy snowboarder type doll called ‘freestyle max’ . It 
contorts to various shapes mimicking a snowboarder. This could help to reinforce teaching, plus it can easily fit into a snowboard jacket and be whipped out at anytime.
Check it out HERE via Freestylemax.com
People from all walks of life ride for various reasons. For fun, for fitness, for their holidays, for the season. Others do it as a way of life and enjoy living and working in the mountains possibly as instructors. Whatever your method just live and let live. Life is for living, live it!
